Titoli in Metafisica e visionaria

Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaic, experimental novel. Here is William S. Burroughs at his coruscating and hilarious best.

Ricardo Gómez presenta unos cuentos que, pese a su crudeza, están cargados de esperanza. ¿Cómo sería tu vida en una ciudad bajo las bombas? ¿Qué harían tus padres para sobrevivir hace un millón de años? ¿Qué sería de tus hermanos en tu país sembrado de minas? ¿Cómo llega un ladrón a convertirse por un día en Papá Noel?

He aquí cuatro narraciones perturbadoras que arrastra al lector a los límites del desasosiego y de lo extraño. En Crímenes triviales, una primera obra que no lo parece, se escuchan los ecos de Kafka, Cortázar o Auster. Nos hallamos ante literatura del mayor nivel. Una prosa bien abastecida, un hábil manejo de la narración y de sus ritmos, la capacidad para envolvernos en una atmósfera de ansiedad y suspense- cuando no de mero terror-, y, a la vez, su hondo calado metafísico, hacen de Crímenes triviales una obra fecunda y de nada trivial en la lectura."

Vides creuades en un país de somni. Un viatge a Islàndia impossible doblidar. Un rellotger que mai no ha sortit de Sabadell i ha danar a Islàndia a reparar un antic rellotge. Un jove nòrdic que busca un grup per tocar la música que li agrada. Una parella de geòlegs que fan el seu viatge somiat. Un escriptor de culte retirat i un jove periodista que lha dentrevistar. I un presumpte triomfador. Una novel·la que, com la Route 1 que voreja la costa islandesa, connecta les vides duns personatges que reflexionen sobre si la seva vida és la que volen i si encara són a temps per a canviar-la.

Una nit de carnaval. Una nit de carnaval després de cinc anys sense cap nit desbarjo. Disfressar-se. Ser un mateix. Estar sol. Agafar un bon pet. Entregar-se. Perdres. Riure. Convertir-se en pare. Enyorar. Cardar. Plorar. Barallar-se. Trobar-se. Mantenir-se dret. Sentir-se part dalguna cosa. Viure. La travessia catàrtica d'un personatge inoblidable a través d'una nit d'alcohol, drogues, sexe i tot tipus de trobades que el portaran a topar-se amb si mateix.

Aquesta és la història de Moor Park. I aquesta és també la història duna amistat. En el decurs dels seus llargs passejos pels parcs londinencs, Jack Toledano explica al seu amic Damien Anderson els seus progressos en l'escriptura del que ha de ser el llibre de la seva vida. Al voltant de l'escriptura d'aquest llibre sorgeixe n temes com la història de la família de Jack, les idees sobre els fets de llegir i escriure o les paradoxes i contradiccions del nostre temps, que, com el mateix Jack, té aspiracions clàssiques però un temperament romàntic.

¿Creéis que ese demonio que a todos alguna vez nos ha atormentado existe realmente? ¿O es solo un producto de nuestra educación e imaginación? El joven Markheim entra en una tienda de antigüedades para comprar un regalo a su prometida, ahora que se acerca la Navidad. El dueño de la tienda le enseña un bello espejo de plata, pero cuando Markheim ve reflejado su rostro en él, inmediatamente lo rechaza, porque de alguna manera ha visto reflejado en el espejo la maldad que siente en su interior.

Joan Cooper is a 17-year-old genius who was traumatized by the death of her older sister and who tries to rebuild her shattered world by studying string theory and the efforts to unify the laws of physics. But as she tackles the complex equations, she falls prey to disturbing visions of a divine being who wants to help her unveil the universe’s mathematical design. Joan must enter the battle between science and religion, fighting for her sanity and a new understanding of the cosmos.

I don’t wish to frighten you, reads the anonymous note introverted and bullied eight-year-old Leo Cruz finds in his backpack. All the sender asks is that he avoid a certain spot on a certain day, or he’ll die. Leo has reason to be afraid. The warning hearkens back to nearly a decade ago - to the same site, where a murder has become local folklore and a favorite campfire tale reinvented year after year by the kids of Arenas, a small Spanish town.

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The tide of battle has turned. In a magnificent feat of maneuvering, Parno McLeod has lured his enemy into an ambush that has left the Imperial Army with half its strength dead or dying and all of its material support destroyed. And yet, the remaining Imperial Army on Soulan soil still numbers over 150,000 men. Men who are now angry and hungry, which is a dangerous combination.

During the day, he’s a South Chicago high school janitor, slopping a mop around from nine o’clock to three o’clock, five days a week. At night, hiding out in a boarded-up factory, he attends to his damaged interstellar spacecraft, making repairs and counting the days until he can return to his homeworld of Calunoth. All he needs to do is mind his own business and avoid any messy human dramas for just a few more weeks. But it is on one of those quiet nights when he hears them outside: the MP140s. Named for a police radio code for murder, they're among the most ruthless killers.

It was a hard sell, but Cameron had convinced Heather to return to the exoplanet Sang-Morang - where he had hoped they could experience the wonder of this majestic corner of the universe, together. The spacecraft Primion was flight-ready and the immense creature - the Minal Loth - seemed content to follow him wherever he went. And he still had the old Ford pickup truck, gassed up, and ready to explore more of that alien landscape. But Cameron’s well-intentioned plan turns out to be one of his very worst.

Liza, an orphan girl living on the cold streets of London in 1834, is able to rise above her squalid surroundings to bring joy to the lives of others. Although only 11, she displays amazing courage as she cares for a younger child and ekes out a bare existence through the approaching winter, guided by the wisdom embodied in letters left to her by her mother. When Liza meets a wealthy gentleman, her mysterious, almost magical manner causes him to re-examine his own life.

In this keenly observant dissection of a love affair in limbo, award-winning author Inês Pedrosa masterfully draws readers into the feverish, unsparing dual confessions of a man and a woman who are finally baring their hearts, souls, fury, and grief over a relationship that was abruptly shattered and never forgotten. Until now, there was so much between them left unspoken. With each new unguarded, darkly funny, and emotional disclosure, they’re brought back together—though impossibly so.

Mexican author Rubirosa is attending a book fair in Tangier when he reconnects with an old acquaintance, a Moroccan artist who asks one favor of his visiting friend: to access the puzzling files on a memory card. It could help fulfill the destiny of his son Abdelkrim. It could also unwittingly draw both men into irreversible events already in motion on distant shores. In America, Abdelkrim, a brilliant aspiring astronaut deemed “too Muslim” for citizenship, has teamed up with an equally gifted young prodigy, a witness to the plight of Syrian refugees.

Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

Kimia, a successful spiritual advisor whose Iranian childhood continues to haunt her, collides with a mysterious giant bird in her mother’s California garage. She begins reliving her experience as a nine-year-old girl in war-torn Iran, including her friendship with a mystical storyteller who led her through the mythic Seven Valleys of Love.

Two women, two millennia apart with seemingly unconnected lives - one from the Lake District in England and the other from Bethany in Palestine. Both experience loss and betrayal, which engender feelings of fear and uncertainty about what the future holds. Martha from the Lake District faces challenge and change in 2,000 A.D. as her deepest insecurities are exposed. But supported by her partner Ben, she discovers the mystical Aramaic teachings of Yeshua that offer her a pathway to self-realization and freedom.

Es una historia de coincidencias que termina haciendo que la vida de cuatros niños (Elvira Isabel, Micaela, Carlos Roberto y Gustavo Andrés) se vean entrelazadas a medida que crecen. Ellos comparten muchas cosas: nacieron en Caracas, Venezuela, sus madres confirman sus embarazos el mismo día y nacen en la misma fecha con una marca en diferentes partes del lado izquierdo de sus cuerpos. Es un lunar con una forma parecida al símbolo celta conocido como “Triskelion”.